Third American on Germanwings Flight Identified

ByMEGHAN KENEALLY ABCNews logo
Friday, March 27, 2015

The third American victim who died in the Germanwings plane crash has been identified as Robert Oliver Calvo.

Oliver, 37, was an American citizen born in Barcelona, Spain.

Oliver worked as a real estate coordinator for the Spanish-based fashion company Desigual, a company spokeswoman told ABC News. Oliver covered German real estate for the company and was headed to Dusseldorf on a business trip with a Spanish colleague called Laura Altamira at the time of his death, according to the Desigual spokeswoman.

The first two Americans identified as being on board were named on Wednesday as mother-daughter pair Yvonne and Emily Selke.

Yvonne Selke lived in Virginia and worked at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, largely working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Emily Selke graduated from Drexel University in 2013 as a music industry major.

Among the 144 passengers on board were 16 German high school students and their two teachers who were traveling back from a language exchange trip in Spain.

Six crew members were also on board, including co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who investigators believe kept his captain outside of the cockpit as he deliberately forced the plane to descend into the French Alps.

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